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Alexander Rufus-Isaacs To Receive the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s President’s Award for 2017
Friday, September 15th, 2017
RIAG partner Alexander Rufus-Isaacs will receive the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s annual President’s Award at the Installation and Awards Dinner on Tuesday September 26, 2017, at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. For more information, see https://www.bhba.org/index.php/component/content/article/350
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5th Annual AFM Party
Monday, December 7th, 2015
RIAG hosted its 5th annual AFM party at Chez Jay’s, the legendary Santa Monica bar, on November 8, but this year we had a co-host – our longstanding client and dear friends at Bitmax LLC (www.bitmax.net). You can judge for yourself how it went from these photos.
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NEW DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Sunday, November 8th, 2015
Together with co-counsel Ian Brenson and Rodney Smolla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_A._Smolla), we filed a defamation lawsuit on 11/6/15 in federal court in Chicago against The Hollywood Reporter arising out of an article about the Sony cyberattack last December. See complaint: https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/thr-sony-hack-defamation-lawsuit.pdf. Our client, Nicole Basile, is a freelance payroll administrator who has been working on major film productions for the last several years. The Hollywood Reporter article singled out Nicole and falsely communicated, explicitly and by undisguised implication, that she was one of the hackers responsible for the cyberattack. Since the article came out, she has not been offered a single job commensurate with her experience. It has, in short, destroyed her career.
http://variety.com/t/nicole-basile/
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Trademarks 101 at the Beverly Hills Bar Association with Speaker Paul D. Supnik
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015
Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP’s Paul D. Supnik will be the speaker at the August 6, 2015 Beverly Hills Bar Association luncheon program “Trademarks 101 – Selection and Protection Basics for the Business Attorney.”
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From Deadline.com: ‘The Blob’ Remake
Friday, March 20th, 2015
RIAG partner Bill Grantham’s client Richard Saperstein is producing the remake of ‘The Blob’ with Brian Witten. See report at Deadline.com: http://deadline.com/2015/01/simon-west-to-direct-the-blob-remake-efm-goldcrest-1201355327/
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PRACTICE AREA/LANGUAGE/ADMISSIONS
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
| Animation, New Media | |
| Appeals | |
| Arbitration, Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution | |
| Art – Public and Private, Policies, Maintenance, Artist Agreements, Publishing | |
| Bankruptcy | |
| Civil Rights Litigation | |
| Conservatorships | |
| Construction Contract Disputes | |
| Copyright | |
| Corporate Formations and Governance | |
| Creditors’ Rights | |
| Criminal Appeals | |
| Criminal Defense – Juvenile | |
| Criminal Defense – Misdemeanors & Felonies | |
| D.C. (Admission) | |
| DMV Administrative Hearings | |
| Documentary | |
| Domestic Violence/Restraining Orders | |
| Employment Negotiations | |
| England and Wales (Admission) | |
| Estate Planning | |
| Entertainment – Acquisition, Development, Distribution, Production | |
| Film Finance | |
| French (Language) | |
| IFTA Arbitration | |
| International and Comparative Copyright | |
| International Film and TV Co-Production | |
| Insurance | |
| Litigation – Entertainment, Media, Insurance | |
| Litigation – General Business | |
| Litigation – General Tort | |
| Litigation – Trademark and Copyright | |
| Media – First Amendment, Privacy, Publicity, Defamation and Reputation Management | |
| Medical Malpractice | |
| Negligence/Malfeasance – Professional and Commercial | |
| New York (Admission) | |
| Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Admission) | |
| Oregon (Admission) | |
| Personal Injury | |
| Police Misconduct | |
| Private International Law | |
| Probate | |
| Production Counsel | |
| Product Liability – Commercial, Pharmacological | |
| Real Estate – Lending, Financing, Leasing, Development | |
| Secured Transactions – Non-Real Estate | |
| Talent | |
| Trademarks – Domestic, International, TTAB Proceedings | |
| Trade Secrets | |
| Trusts and Trust administration | |
| TV – Scripted & Non Scripted | |
| UCC Article 9 Foreclosure | |
| Uniform Commercial Code | |
| Washington (Admission) | |
| Will Contests and Trust Litigation | |
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RIAG SPEAKER AT LONDON SEMINAR ON PUBLICITY RIGHTS
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
On May 10, 2014, London media law firm Harbottle & Lewis hosted the first meeting of the London chapter that featured a live panel discussion. The topic was a comparison of rights of publicity law in both jurisdictions. Harbottle’s John Kelly spoke about English law, and RIAG’S Alexander Rufus-Isaacs spoke about US law.
Shortly before the panel, the UK papers had reported an incident when a hairdresser in West London had placed a photograph of a disheveled-looking Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, in its window, with the legend: “Having a bad hair day? Pop in for a cut!” Not seeing the humor in this, 2 officials from the North Korean embassy visited the hairdresser and told him to take down the photograph. He sent them packing using a colorful version of “This is England, mate, not North Korea.” This proved to be a good illustration of the differences in the 2 legal systems. Had this occurred in California, a court would probably find that the Dear Leader’s likeness had been knowingly used for commercial purposes without his permission, and if he could make a decent showing of damages, he would probably prevail under common law misappropriation of likeness and Civ. Code §3344, and recover damages and attorney’s fees. However under English law, he has no rights to this own image and could only win if he could establish “passing off,” a common law tort based on consumer confusion, similar to the Lanham Act, which in all likelihood he would be unable to do.
Many other topics were discussed, including the recent European ruling against Google on Max Mosely’s action seeking the “right to be forgotten,” the post mortem right of publicity statute in California (no equivalent in England), First Amendment defenses in the USA vs the “newsworthiness” test in England, and identifiability. This was followed by a spirited question and answer session with the audience consisting of around 30 media lawyers, mostly from the UK, but some from the USA, Europe and Australia. The evening finished with an enthusiastic assault on Harbottle’s venerated wine cellar.
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RIAG Files “Libel In Fiction” Lawsuit
Monday, April 21st, 2014
RIAG and our co-counsel, Neville Johnson of Johnson & Johnson, and Prof. Rodney Smolla (author of the leading treatise, Law of Defamation), have filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ronee Sue Blakley – singer, musician and Oscar-nominated actress (Nashville). Ronee Sue had a daughter in 1988 with a man named Carroll Cartwright, which led to a long and highly acrimonious custody battle. Cartwright wrote a script about a long and highly acrimonious custody battle, which he presents as an adaption of the Henry James novel, What Maisie Knew, but is, as he has freely admitted in press interviews, based on his own experiences. The script was made into a film of the same name which was released in 2013 with Julianne Moore playing the mother, and Steve Coogan as the father. Cartwright based the mother character very closely on Ronee Sue, and the film makes her out to be a complete monster, whereas in reality, she was an utterly devoted mother and she is devastated and appalled by being portrayed in the film as this terrible mother. The complaint was filed in LA Superior Court on April 18, and has been extensively covered in the press, e.g., http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/screenwriter-sued-making-henry-james-697876
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COURT OF APPEAL AFFIRMS DENIAL
Thursday, March 27th, 2014
Our client, Dave Williams, was falsely accused on ABC’S 20-20 of being a conman and an internet predator. We sued ABC and his ex-girlfriend, Kelly Cahill, on his behalf. They filed an anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss the lawsuit which was denied by the trial court last March. ABC and Cahill appealed, though ABC subsequently settled.
Oral argument before the CA Court of Appeal was exceptionally one-sided in our favor: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/03/kelley_cahill_dating_abc.php
And on March 26, the appellate court affirmed the trial court’s decision: http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/G048301.PDF
We hope to get a trial date before the end of the year.
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